Dan Kois

1 week ago | slate.com | Dan Kois

“What is Florida anyway?” the columnist-turned-revolutionary Skip Wiley asks in Tourist Season, the first of Carl Hiaasen’s bestselling crime capers set in the Sunshine State. “An immense sunny toilet where millions of tourists flush their money and save the moment on Kodak film.” Skip Wiley is, ostensibly, the villain of Tourist Season, pitted against his former co-worker Brian Keyes, a good-looking ex-reporter who’s trying to make it in the PI business.

1 week ago | slate.com | Dan Kois

Julian Schnabel made his debut film, Basquiat, less than a decade after its subject, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at age 27. An impressionistic portrait of a young artist who took the New York scene by storm, Basquiat was divisive upon its release in 1996. Some critics praised Jeffrey Wright’s quiet, sly performance, as well as the murderers’ row of character actors surrounding him—Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Parker Posey, Benicio del Toro, and Willem Dafoe among them.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dan Kois

Julian Schnabel made his debut film, Basquiat, less than a decade after its subject, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, died at age 27. An impressionistic portrait of a young artist who took the New York scene by storm, Basquiat was divisive upon its release in 1996. Some critics praised Jeffrey Wright’s quiet, sly performance, as well as the murderers’ row of character actors surrounding him—Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Parker Posey, Benicio del Toro, and Willem Dafoe among them.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Dan Kois

12 hours agoA Kentucky man was over the moon after winning the biggest lottery prize in the state’s history. But four days later, he was behind bars. On the night of Saturday, April 26, James Farthing learned that his $2 Powerball ticket that he bought his mom was a winner, and the duo had won a $167.3 million …

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Dan Kois |Sam Adams |Julia Turner

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